Sentences with phrase «ocean scientists got»

Ocean scientists got their first taste of how gliders could help with their research last summer, following BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Not exact matches

While this is not as exciting a find as the planet covered with oceans of oil that everyone was hoping scientists would find, maybe the promise of untold riches is just the incentive NASA needs to get its space program in gear.

It's possible the parasite has always been in the ocean, but most scientists think it somehow got there from cats — the only known carrier of the oocysts.

Scientists define them as periods when the sea surface in a given area of the ocean gets unusually warm for at least five days in a row.

«If this doesn't succeed,» he says, «the next time ocean scientists want to tackle something big, we won't get the chance.»

(Those who worry about mercury contamination in fish got some good news recently: In one study conducted in the Seychelles, a group of islands in the Indian Ocean, scientists from the University of Rochester Medical Center tracked pregnant women who ate an average of 12 fish meals a week, about 10 times the quantity of fish eaten by the average American.

«Chicxulub is the only preserved structure with an intact peak ring that we can get to,» says University of Texas, Austin, geophysicist Sean Gulick, co — chief scientist for the $ 10 million project, sponsored by the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) and the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program.

That was the bump that some of those climate scientists were trying to get rid of [in the temperature data], but it was a real bump, and I think it was associated with these ocean oscillations.

Although that in itself was initially a mystery, scientists now know these animals release tiny larvae that get carried by ocean currents to different vents, where they settle and form a new colony.

Foreign scientists will get their first glimpse of the lab when it hosts a global conference on climate and oceans later this month.

Collecting this data at the ARM Tropical Western Pacific site located on the western edge of Nauru Island, scientists expected to get measurements that represented the greater ocean area.

Scientists believe global warming might get worse if the oceans soak up less of the greenhouse gas.

This understanding is likely to grow dramatically: since 2000 or so, scientists have deployed some 3,500 autonomous Argo floats, which measure ocean temperature and salinity automatically and continuously — a much more reliable set of records than you can get from ships.

The findings give scientists a better handle on the earth's carbon budget — how much carbon remains in the atmosphere as CO2, contributing to global warming, and how much gets stored in the land or ocean in other carbon - containing forms.

Scientists will set out this week to drill a hole into the Indian Ocean floor to try to get below the Earth's crust for the first time.

Earlier this year, the Xue Long assisted in the rescue of more than 50 scientists and paying passengers from a ship that got stuck in the Antarctic Ocean.

Here's an excerpt, followed by some input (including criticism) I got from other scientists focused on the interplay of the ocean and atmosphere: Read more...

I am a publishing, grant getting ocean scientist [hence the handle] and have strong feelings about AGW.

The United States delegation even weighed in, urging the authors of the report to explain away the lack of warming using the «leading hypothesis» among scientists that the lower warming is down to more heat being absorbed by the ocean — which has got hotter.»

That's ironic that you mention that particular property of CO2, because there are scientist that theorize that, since CO2 is heavier, the GCM models are not correct — most CO2 produced at Earth's surface NEVER gets well mixed in fact most CO2 gets removed by rainfall, or gets absorbed by plants or the ocean long before it can cause any change in the so - called Greenhouse gas effect (but the GHG theory is not correct anyway) and the fact that they have severly underestimated CO2 upweelinng from the dee

There are many more relevant measurements of ocean chemical composition than direct measurements of pH. Something can be concluded from those, but it remains certainly true and acknowledged by marine scientists that much more data is needed to get a full picture of all parts of oceans.

To get a complete picture of Earth's temperature, scientists combine measurements from the air above land and the ocean surface collected by ships, buoys and sometimes satellites, too.

When it came to stopping the dumping of radioactive waste in the world's oceans (led by UK and not participated in by the US), it was Greenpeace and the Seamen's Unions (in response to their activism) that stopped the dumping — I was then a scientist / legal activist advising NGOs such as Greenpeace, AND when the governments eventually got the message that they had to clean up their act, I helped the UN create better protection of the marine environment.

A press release on the Planktos site, under the heading «New Era of Ocean Stewardship Unveiled by Planktos Foundation,» touts «the work of the team of dedicated ocean scientists at The Planktos Foundation,» but I didn't get to meet any scientOcean Stewardship Unveiled by Planktos Foundation,» touts «the work of the team of dedicated ocean scientists at The Planktos Foundation,» but I didn't get to meet any scientocean scientists at The Planktos Foundation,» but I didn't get to meet any scientists.

Since to me (and many scientists, although some wanted a lot more corroborative evidence, which they've also gotten) it makes absolutely no sense to presume that the earth would just go about its merry way and keep the climate nice and relatively stable for us (though this rare actual climate scientist pseudo skeptic seems to think it would, based upon some non scientific belief — see second half of this piece), when the earth changes climate easily as it is, climate is ultimately an expression of energy, it is stabilized (right now) by the oceans and ice sheets, and increasing the number of long term thermal radiation / heat energy absorbing and re radiating molecules to levels not seen on earth in several million years would add an enormous influx of energy to the lower atmosphere earth system, which would mildly warm the air and increasingly transfer energy to the earth over time, which in turn would start to alter those stabilizing systems (and which, with increasing ocean energy retention and accelerating polar ice sheet melting at both ends of the globe, is exactly what we've been seeing) and start to reinforce the same process until a new stases would be reached well after the atmospheric levels of ghg has stabilized.

The scientists could get on with the science, go to conferences, argue over climate sensitivity or the impact of CO2 on the oceans or whatever.

As for lying, I have observed many scientists seem to have no difficulty with lying when they connect, without a shred of evidence, supportive modeling or any data or often even any theory such things as extreme weather is getting worse or is linked to CO2, wet areas will get wetter and dry areas will get drier, that the ocean swallowed the «missing heat», using a proxy upside down doesn't matter, the models are still adequate for policy even after such a huge divergence from reality, coral die - back is due to manmade warming rather than fishing, all warming must be bad rather than beyond a certain threshold, etc, etc, etc..

Based on the fact that water expands as it gets warmer, NASA scientists at the Jet Propulsion Lab were able to test this hypothesis of «missing» warming hiding in the deep ocean.

«We don't get any money; we do this in our free time,» said Realclimate.org contributor Stefan Rahmstorf, an ocean physics scientist at Potsdam University in Germany.

The probl is the «scientists» get paid to fit emissions into the equation consequently ignore other factors that do provide for AGW such as reduced ITCZ cloud mass ensuring the tropical oceans absorb more SW.

«My initial fear was that this oil was going to get caught up in the loop current and moved right to the pristine beaches of Cuba and the Florida Keys, then up the coast as far north as North Carolina,» says Rader, the chief ocean scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund.

The sheer amount of ocean data collected every year is staggering, but without a central location for sharing it all, it can be hard for scientists to easily get their hands on the data that they may need to further their studies.

Take what you have learned from the scientists and imagine the world in a few decades from now, a few degrees warmer, with all the extreme weather, desertification, ocean acidification, mass migration, conflict over energy supplies, fresh water and so on, that have already begun, and that will only get worse the more we destabilize our climate system with greenhouse gases.